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Flash Flood Warning 169, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 3, 2022Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2022, 7:36 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2022, 7:36 PM MDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2022, 10:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 3, 5:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 5:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 6:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 6:38 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 6:40 PM MDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:08 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 6:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Aug 3, 6:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	2 hr
Aug 3, 6:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 3, 6:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Aug 3, 7:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	22 min
Aug 3, 7:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	3 hr
Aug 3, 7:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	32 min
Aug 3, 8:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 3, 8:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	31 min
Aug 3, 8:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	26 min
Aug 3, 8:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	55 min
Aug 3, 9:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	118 min
Aug 3, 9:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	118 min
Aug 3, 9:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	3 hr
Aug 3, 10:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
Aug 3, 10:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 3, 11:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca	3 hr
Aug 3, 11:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 3, 11:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	3 hr
Aug 4, 12:08 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Aug 4, 1:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 4, 1:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	25 min
Aug 4, 1:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Aug 4, 2:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	4 hr
Aug 4, 2:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 4, 2:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		33 min
Aug 4, 2:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	31 min
Aug 4, 2:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	114 min
Aug 4, 2:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Aug 4, 2:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora, Taos	4 hr
Aug 4, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	26 min
Aug 4, 2:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	3 min
Aug 4, 3:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Torrance	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Aug 4, 3:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora, Taos	9 min
Aug 4, 3:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	28 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Taos	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	25 min
Aug 4, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	45 min
Aug 4, 4:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Taos	3 hr
Aug 4, 4:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Taos	3 hr
Aug 4, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	35 min
Aug 4, 4:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	2 hr
Aug 4, 5:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	31 min
Aug 4, 5:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	3 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.